New Jersey’s largest personal injury verdict, $166 million awarded last year to an infant who was beaten and permanently disabled after state child-protection agents left him with an abusive parent, has been truncated to $102 million.
Essex County Superior Court Judge James Rothschild Jr. on Wednesday refused to upend the Dec. 13 verdict against the Division of Youth and Family Services but granted the state’s motion for remittitur, finding the jury’s decision to apportion zero liability to the father “cannot stand.”
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